| Country | Before Crisis (1950s-1960s) | After Crisis (1970s-1980s) |
| United Kingdom | Labour/Conservatives | Thatcher's Tories |
| United States | New Deal Democrats | The Reagan Revolution |
| West Germany | Free Democrats and SPD coalition; 60's "grand coalition" | Kohl and the Christian Democrats |
| France | Statist "consensus" | Mitterand's "U-turn" (1982-84) |
| Sweden | SAP dominance | Conservative interlude (1976-82) |
| Denmark | Social democratic dominance | Weakened majority governments |
| Norway | Social democratic dominance | Weakened majority governments |
| Belgium | Social democratic alliance | Center-right alliance (1981-82) |
| The Netherlands | Social democratic alliance | Christian Democrats (1982) |